Synopsis:
Mexico
Emergency nurse Maria Connolly leaves the A&E department of the
Royal Preston Hospital to work in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - the centre of a
violent drug war. In Preston, Maria has never seen a murder victim or
anyone with a gunshot injury, but Juarez is the murder capital of the
world and the nurses in the General Hospital deal with the victims of
shootings, stabbings and torture on a daily basis.
For Maria this
is a journey into the lives of a dedicated team of nurses who are
themselves targets for kidnappers and killers, often having to conceal
their identities and change their routes to work. In recent years Ciudad
Juarez has had more violent deaths than Baghdad - since 2008 more than
10,000 people have died on the streets, victims of a vicious turf war
between the drug cartels battling to control the lucrative marijuana and
cocaine trade over the border into America.
Maria's host for her
stay is local nurse Pablo Vasquez, who has witnessed gun battles in the
hospital itself. Now heavily armed guards patrol the corridors. She
also meets one of Pablo's neighbours, whose daughter is one of the
hundreds of young women who have simply disappeared from the streets of
the city.
During her stay Maria treats patients with a terrifying
variety of violent injuries. She sees gunshot injuries, stabbings,
beatings and even a father and son who were put through a mock
execution. But the nurses of Juarez General work through the mayhem with
dedication and humour, in the face of the world's most notorious drug
war
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